A Treasure To Be Shared

Holy Communion is that sublime moment when, in awe of God's gift of Himself under such a humble form, we should tremble in  fear  (awe, profound respect) and kneel before the Lord our Maker. Can anyone seriously argue that communion in the hand (CITH) has not drastically obscured the true nature of the august Sacrament? Or, for that matter, can anyone seriously argue that CITH has led to an increase in reverence for the Blessed Sacrament? Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. A viewing of the "communion line" on the occasion of the Dedication of Christ Cathedral (Diocese of Orange), the former Crystal Cathedral founded by Dr. Robert Schuller, tends to confirm the need for due reverence for the Blessed Sacrament. Communicants were handed the Sacred Host and, with few beautiful, reverent exceptions, proceeded with casual indifference. Shoppers show more decorum in a grocery store checkou...

Saint Matthew 13:24-30 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. Because many are currently small (like a mustard seed! - cf St. Mark 4:30–32) and enthusiastic, emergent fa...

Urban Dictionary 2. Twitter : a social media website consisting largely of trolls, slacktivists,... . As a private company, Twitter can and does set policy and discriminate against elements that do not fit its mission. Twitter has rules of conduct, but do its rules comport with reality? As Chesterton wrote: When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom, you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws. Twitter has a  lot of small laws . If subject matter conflicts with certain Twitterules, a Twitterer may find himself shut out or shut down. Twitter Exec Censors #WhichHillary in advance of Sunday Fundraiser, Key Primaries; Daily Kos [February 26, 2016]. In 2016, at the same time as Twitter executives paid to attend a political fundraiser by Hillary Clinton, the Twitter platform banned a pro-Bernie Sanders account that had started a hashtag critical of Clinton's fundraising from wealthy donors. Wikipedia Babylon A relative few individuals...

Screen grab: ACS image H/T Anglicanorum Coetibus Society* (O)ur ninth conference, focussing on the Anglican Tradition in the Catholic Church, will be held in Toronto, Ontario on November 15th and 16th, 2019 . It will feature choral liturgies in the best tradition of the Anglican patrimony, including Mass, Mattins, and Choral Evensong and Benediction. Further details will be announced in due course, but please mark the dates on your calendars now and we look forward to seeing everyone in Toronto this fall. https://www.acsociety.org/conference * "Promoting the Anglican tradition & common identity within the Catholic Church."

A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. An Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope (1709) The disciplining of a priest by his bishop, as in the case of Fr. Treco by Bishop Steven J. Lopes , is no light matter. Too often, it seems, enthusiasts of a certain ilk - those laced or possessed with "a little learning", which "is a dang'rous thing" - infect a community with the bile of personal preferences. Those preferences may contain elements of the Truth. Sadly, however, whatever smattering of truth may be present is then suppressed and an agenda of not so pleasant fictions emerges to fray the edges of a community and eventually rend it entirely. Pray for the Minnesota Ordinariate Community . Opinions traversing the internet have amounted to much useless scuttlebutt and digital chaff. It is far too easy to get on one...

Monsignor Carl Reid - Photo: Catholic Weekly Our Lady of The Southern Cross Ordinariate news: from The Catholic Weekly https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/monsignor-carl-reid-to-be-installed-as-new-head-of-ordinariate/ The new head of Australia’s Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross for former Anglicans will be installed at a special Mass in St Mary’s Cathedral on 27 August. Monsignor Carl Reid, a Canadian, will become the second head of the Ordinariate as he takes over from its first leader, Perth-based Mons Harry Entwistle. Meanwhile, a senior official in the Vatican’s top theological watchdog – the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – will give a public lecture in Sydney on the ordinariates the day after Mons Reid’s installation. ARCHBISHOP AUGSTINE DI NOIA OP, ADJUNCT SECRETARY OF THE CDF, WILL SPEAK ON 28 AUGUST ON THE PATRIMONY OF THE ORDINARIATES, CREATED BY POPE BENEDICT XVI BETWEEN 2011 AND 2012 FOLLOWING HIS APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION ANGLI...

Interestingly, perhaps prophetically, groups of Anglicans - received into full communion with the Catholic Church through the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus - are restoring to the Roman Catholic Church much of its heritage and identity. Anglicanorum Coetibus III. Without excluding liturgical celebrations according to the Roman Rite, the Ordinariate has the faculty to celebrate the Holy Eucharist and the other Sacraments, the Liturgy of the Hours and other liturgical celebrations according to the liturgical books proper to the Anglican tradition, which have been approved by the Holy See, so as to maintain the liturgical, spiritual and pastoral traditions of the Anglican Communion within the Catholic Church, as a precious gift nourishing the faith of the members of the Ordinariate and as a treasure to be shared.   Calling All Fowls (Catholics) Luke 13:19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a ...

Catholic Australia reports a very un-Catholic doing that should be undone. https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/qa-with-fr-john-flader-a-new-sign-of-the-cross/ An excerpt from a column by Fr. John Flader at Catholic Weekly (Australia): 'A friend recently told me that in the Catholic school his son attends some teachers are now making the Sign of the Cross "In the name of the Father and of the Mother and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." I was astounded. Is this acceptable?' When I read your question, I too was astounded. In total disbelief. Is this acceptable? Of course not. Why would teachers at a Catholic school venture down a path taken by liberal protestants, i.e., liberal religionists that claim to know better than Jesus Christ, other than to impose a heresy that, disease it is, infects and weakens the Church? Perhaps they think they are doing some good. Perhaps they presume to know better than Holy Mother Church. The Church that, because they...

The Rev. Fr. Ed Tomlinson has the full story: http://www.tunbridgewells-ordinariate.com/blog/ A snippet: Yesterday Roy Cavey was ordained a deacon for the Ordinariate alongside three other men being ordained deacon for the Archdiocese of Southwark.

Newman saw it: "this great apostasia". + + + http://www.newmanreader.org/works/addresses/file2.html 12 May 1879 Vi ringrazio, Monsignore, per la participazione che m'avete fatto dell'alto onore che il Santo Padre si degnato conferire sulla mia umile persona.... [I thank you, Monsignor, for informing me of the high honour the Holy Father has deigned to confer upon my humble person.] And, if I ask your permission to continue my address to you, not in your musical language, but in my own dear mother tongue, it is because in the latter I can better express my feelings on this most gracious announcement which you have brought to me than if I attempted what is above me. First of all then, I am led to speak of the wonder and profound gratitude which came upon me, and which is upon me still, at the condescension and love towards me of the Holy Father in singling me out for so immense an honour. It was a great surprise. Such an elevation had ne...

THE SUMMARY OF THE LAW Hear what our Lord Jesus Christ saith: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. In our last visit we looked briefly at the remarkably succinct and sublime Collect For Purity . Now, we glide onward to its companion. A visitor to an Ordinariate Mass might rightly ask why are there two penitential rites? To those unfamiliar with the nuances of the Mass, one might think of the Mass as a microcosm of the liturgical year. An "Advent" precedes the Liturgy of the Word, what used to be called the Mass of the Catechumens. Advent, you will recall, is the season preceding Christmas, the birth of the Messiah. We prepare for the arrival of the Lord, the Word-Made-Flesh. The Introductory rites - that include the Collect...

The story... at ACS Blog: https://anglicanorumcoetibussociety.blog/2019/07/01/dominion-day-news-of-fr-kenyons-return-to-canada/ Christopher Mahon As Canadians celebrate Canada Day, historically and still known by many as Dominion Day, some good news for the Deanery of Saint John the Baptist has been announced. Our former dean, Father Lee Kenyon, is being appointed pastor of the ordinariate parish in Victoria, British Columbia , and will be moving with his family back to Canada over the summer in order to take on the assignment in the fall. The timing is even more fitting given that it was also announced today that Blessed John Henry Newman, the namesake of the Victoria parish, is to be canonized this October 13th. News gets around. Sometimes enthusiasm gets the word out before permission is granted. Probably no harm done. Better to ask for forgiveness... ? Victoria is pleased to hear of the possibility of Fr. Kenyon's debut on the Island. We wait for the official c...

Catholic Herald Blessed John Henry Newman will be canonised on Sunday, October 13, the Vatican has announced. Additional Notices https://zenit.org/articles/just-announced-the-consistory-for-canonization-of-blessed-cardinal-newman-set-for-july-1/ http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2019/07/01/190701c.html Ordinary Public Consistory for the Vote on Causes of Canonization, 01.07.2019 This morning, at 10.00, in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace, during the celebration of Terce, the Holy Father Francis held an Ordinary Public Consistory for the Canonization of the Blesseds: - John Henry Newman, cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, founder of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in England; - et al. During the Consistory, the Pope decreed that the Blesseds be inscribed in the Book of Saints on Sunday 13 October 2019.

OCCatholic Photo: Challenge Roddie Excerpts from the OCCatholic article: Anything But Ordinary Edited for length. Father Andrew Bartus is a member of the expanding ordinariate of pastors in Southern California and Orange County. But there is nothing ordinary about the 36-year-old priest. He is married, has four children and a day job as a history teacher at St. Michael’s Preparatory School in Silverado. And he is a full-fledged Catholic priest. [...] The ordinariate is a jurisdiction within the Catholic Church, much like a diocese, and created by the Vatican in 2012 for people in the Anglican tradition, who wish to become Catholics. Parishes and communities in the ordinariate are fully Roman Catholic, but retain elements of Anglican traditions and liturgy. Unlike former efforts to absorb the tide of Anglicans returning to the Catholicism, the ordinariate provides the new parishes and clerics with their own bishop and organizational body.   As a member of the ordinar...